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r0nin-: they didnt eat
their farms
mircea_popescu: that's 1800s.
throughout, everywhere, including
the self-same romans understand
this.
mircea_popescu: and
the undersranding of
this being what it is, is universal. flaubert has piece explaining how dr bovary sucked at farming because he ate his farm.
r0nin-: interest continues no matter
the productive capacity of
the farm
mircea_popescu: they started eating
their chickens. living above means.
mircea_popescu: understand something : a new chicken is born on a farm.
this chicken grows into either capital good or else consumption.
THE SAME chicken.
r0nin-: deflation kills off consumption so you get a situation where
theres literally no market
to sell your produce in
r0nin-: what happened was all
the $ went into so few hands you had deflation everywhere
mircea_popescu: much exactly like
the history of
the us, except stretched over 3x
the
time.
mircea_popescu: early soldier cultivated it and built a civilisation. late soldier attempted
to live above his means
to justify socially his internal ineptitude.
r0nin-: the soldiers werent around
they were out battling
mircea_popescu: wealth concentrated in latifundias
to protect itself from
the inept mismanagement of soldiers who had become welfare cases over a century since marian's obamacare.
r0nin-: youve got it
the opposite, overtime compounding outstrips
the economies ability
to generate surplus
r0nin-: soldiers lost all
their farms due
to compounding
shinohai: Oh mircea_popescu , you forgot
to
tell me
that (x) altcoin was going
TO
TEH MOON
mircea_popescu: capital failing situation is eg, enemy bombardment.
then capital fails,
then you protect labour.
r0nin-: yes compound interest once again overwhelmhed
the economies ability
to keep up
r0nin-: the fucker upper was
the bondholder
mircea_popescu: let
them fucking figure out how. i just give out
the signal if.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how.
this isn't explainy hour.
the cooperation of
the fucker-upper is neither sought nor required.
r0nin-: mircea: why should everyone be impoverished so a few misers can stare at
their shitty bonds?
r0nin-: government created
trillions in new fiat
to bail out financial sector and
then
they
told everyone
they have
to accept 90% wage reductions
mircea_popescu: r0nin- ayup. and it is
the correct move if you'ere not willing
to actually beat
the fuckers.
r0nin-: drive wages
to as close
to zero as possible
r0nin-: austerity was
to remove all $ from economy
to protect bondholders
ben_vulpes: wasn't
that
the premise of 'austerity'?
mircea_popescu: wtf is
this "We'll solve
the problems for
them". no, bitch. we
think
the unemployment among X group is
too high,
that group gets beaten until it fixes it!
mircea_popescu: tell
them,
too. it;'s either unemploymenty under 2% or beatings for a week straight each month.
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "oh fuck, unemployment among < 25 yos is 50% ? hahaha! pick up all kids, beat
them for a week solid,
then see."
r0nin-: rome is worth it for
them alone
mircea_popescu: and why should
they! human rights! living wage! no rape!
mircea_popescu: or
to anything, really.
they'll reddit,
that's about it.
r0nin-: new gen doesnt want
to apprentice
r0nin-: italian
tailors are all dieing off
mircea_popescu: tell you what
though : in
the 70s everyone was getting his hjookers in italy, from visconti
to
the swiss.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, in
the 70s. it ain't
the 70s anymore.
mircea_popescu: r0nin- i guess. anyone's entitled
to his own favoritas.
r0nin-: Rome is on
the map becuase of caraceni
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, rome is not really on
the map for
the sartorial gentleman. and
the only
thing
that puts italy on
the map is marcha, go pick a few pairs of shoes.
mod6: Damn heat + humidity up here is starting
to get annoying everyday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shocking how many buyers
tolerate
the synthetics
these days.
mircea_popescu: oh, yeah,
that suit's dead by now. but it served well in
the heat.
r0nin-: linen is a 1 wear
though before it needs a press from
the wrinkles
r0nin-: Rome 3k euro for anyone
that knows what
they are doing
mircea_popescu: 4-5k for
the
tickets + 4-5k for
the hotel + 4-5k for
the whores + 4.5k for
the suits = 20k and you've a bunch of stories
to
tell.
mircea_popescu: but yes,
tailoring
tourism fits well with argentina. land, go straight
to
tailor, have measures
taken, go
to exedra or w/e pick up a coupla hookers, come back a week later pick up your half dozen suits and jump into plane.
r0nin-: well its a very good price compared
to europe
mircea_popescu: r0nin- not
terrible. old jew, knows his
trade. anyway fabric varies wildly,
this was a light linen
thing.
they'll make it out of anything, including bring-your-own
r0nin-: how
they doing
that? fabric is like $100 a meter
r0nin-: whats a decent suit go for
there anyway in argentina?
r0nin-: ive got
tailoring recommendations
this
time
mircea_popescu: r0nin- don't
tell me you got fresh reading recommendations ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 15:26 asciilifeform: valentinbuza: also recommend
to read
the mircea_popescu's intro, in
the chan greetingline
a111: Logged on 2017-08-17 20:30 asciilifeform: but in very other olds, apparently in an obscure article in '09 bernstein shows how
to eliminate one of
the middle-term additions of karatsuba .
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 15:18 valentinbuza: "to improve
their experience." leads
to "Which
top sites are users visiting?" :))
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 15:16 asciilifeform: ( firefox is
the one
that has
the added 'feature' of eating GBs of ram for no reason )
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701913 <<< it's not just
that. firefox rendering engine has been forever broken, since version 5 or so. i dunno what version
they're at by now, 60 or 160 or w/e, but
they never actyually got
the manpower
together
to fix
the problem. which problem is -- not memory stable!!! most gfx pages will eat up firefox memory at linear rate over
time. which means
that
the browser will always crash, no m
☝︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise, stays child / vaguely
transitions into cvasi-girl over
time.
mircea_popescu: man who uses computer
to do work never fails
to discover
this.
the only
thing is
that most children start
their intellectual life using computers for entertainment (which is entirely natural) and
the
transition happens naturally only if child is exposed
to environment
that permits manhood.
mircea_popescu: all
these
together add up
to
triple digit productivity gains.
mircea_popescu: and finally of course
there's
the important 3. pages
that fail
to work
through
this process are very rarely worth reading, you basically gain an entry filter more valuable
than readily intuited.
mircea_popescu: 2. eye
trying
to orient in
the "user friendly" graphical bloat is an incomprehensibly huge wastage of bioresources.
mircea_popescu: it may seem offputting at first, "where's my rounded corners" reaction.
then if you stick with it for a few weeks you might discover
the IMMENSE productivity gains of
text-only.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 15:15 valentinbuza: gave up chrome long
time ago for firefox (with noscript + self destructing cookies). now I should start looking for alternatives.
mircea_popescu: one of
the rare cases where sheer discipline carried
the day.
mircea_popescu: he'd go consult with mp with a list of questions, and MEMORIZE
the fucking answers.
mircea_popescu: dude was fascinating
though. completely inept linguistically, entirely uncultivated (no highschool degree). undeterred.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 16:59 mircea_popescu:
the point is not without merit,
though. ~all
the competent, at artisan level, males,
the dudes working leather and metal and wood and whatnot ~competently~ are virtually all 50 yo doods with very much a slave mentality.
mircea_popescu: it was decent and no more back when
the principal
target was
the german kingdom. same exact evolution in
tito's aglutination, actually.
mircea_popescu: but romania ended up with a competent secret service mostly
through infiltrating kgb, not
through competition with
the deeply inept burgeoises.
mircea_popescu: it was a case of "the inept management died, and
the bright kids republiced in
their absence". blasted
through everything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the actual reason, i am persuaded, is
that
the formerly VERY competitive, fragmented
talent finally pooled starting mid 1989 and ending six months later.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough,
the fear of one generation became
the reality of
the next. funny how it never worked
that way re nuke ; but did work
that way re craft.
mircea_popescu: the point is not without merit,
though. ~all
the competent, at artisan level, males,
the dudes working leather and metal and wood and whatnot ~competently~ are virtually all 50 yo doods with very much a slave mentality.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: she's a slavegirl here ; otherwise luvs
torturing bois in her free
time.